The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-07

ueiu, was hliAbu Ou tub OOlH ults. Dl
officers who mistook him for Olsen.n
At Vienna, Wisconsin, on the evening
Of the LIST, some unknown assassin fred
at Mr.. and Mrs. John Carbell while
they were riding in a wagon. Carbell
was killed and lis wife fatally injured.
The main steam pipe on the tow
boat j. @. Fisher exploded on the
morning of the I'd, near Allegheny City,
Penna. A deck hand, named Hayes,
was killed. and Jas. Campbell, engi-
neer, and Edward Durgan, fireman.
were fatally scalded. An explosion
occurred on the Both ult., at the saw
mill of the Paducah Lumber Company,
near Paducah, Kentucky, by which
four men were injured. two Of them
fatally.
"A freight train on the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad was wrecked on the I'd
near Gap Station, in Lancaster county.
Ten loaded cars and their contents
we're badly damaged, and both tracks
were blocked for several hours.
AT NlcholvilIe, st. Lawrence
county, New York, on the evening of
the I'd, Charles Morrow went home
drunk and began abusing his wife. She
fed from the house and he followed,
and drawing a revolver shot her in the
head and then committed suicide. She
lived for about an hour. The wife of
Charles Martin, a young farmer near
Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the ven
ing of the I'd gave rat poison to her
two young children and swallowed some
herself. She and one child are dead,
but it is thought that the baby will re-
cover. She had not lived happily with
her husband.
"A terrible marine disaster hap
pened on the I'd at the northwest point
of Channel Harbor, Newfoundland.
The Glasgow steamer John Knox.
laden with liquors, brick and rolling
stock, struck the reefs neal Channel
Earbor and sank in half an hour. All
on board persisted. A furious gale of
wind, with a heavy landward sea and a
dense fog, prevailed at the time of the
accident. She had a crew of 80 men.
The bodies of 16 have been washed
ashore.
"A storm of extraordinary severity
ragged at Duluth, Minnesota, on the
evening of the lst and morning Of
the I'd, doing damage to stores.
dwellings, streets and sewers esLima-
ted at nearly S100,0 00. The cellars
of over fifty houses were filed with
water, and freight cars in the st.
Paul and Duluth Railroad yards were
overturned by the wind. A high
wind storm prevailed at Jefferson
City, Missouri, on the I'd, ~unroofng
a number of buildings, among them
the lehman Opera House and the
Music Hall. A side wall of the Opera
House was blown in. A violent wind
storm ragged at Eau Claire and Luding-
ton, Wisconsin, during the I'd. In
Eau Claire signs were blown down,
plate glass fronts demolished and
houses partially unroofed. In Lud-
a dwelling and a barn were de-
molished.
The boiler Of a switch engine ex-
pIoded at the Belle Dock Round
House, in New Haven, Connecticut,
the mo; ming of the Sd, injuring
nine men, all of whom will prob
ably ecover. The round house Was
wrecked and two locomotives were
badly damaged. The loss to the rail-
road company will exceed $500
Two sharp shocks of earthquake
we're felt at Ell Paso, Texas, at s min
utes past 3 O'Clock on the afternoon of
the Sd. First came a vertical move
ment lasting several seconds, then after
a minutes calm "a very pronounced
horizontal wave-like motion.p The
shocks were felt in every part Of the
city, and the people ran out of doors.
While the vibrations lasted, articles
fell from shelves upon the floor, clocks
were stopped, plastering was thrown
from ceilings and walls, and In some
instances, walls were cracked. 1t is
said that ''for probably two minutes
preceding the shock many persons rec
ognized a distinct and offensive smell
of sulphur"
-"The largest gas well in the
world" has just been discovered at
Fairmount, near Muncie, Indiana.
According to a test by the State Geolo-
glst of OHIO, It's flow is nearly IL, 600, 600
feet per day. While driving a we'll on a
farm neal Nation, Illinois. on the Sd,
IdIuIdl Rdo Was oLl uCh. u6IL lktllptu
the fame rose thirty-ive feet in the
air.
Two men, named Brown and
O'Hara, sitting on the railroad track
at SnoTden Station, neal P~lttsburg, on
the evening of the I'd, were killed by a
shifting engine. Miss Emma Weiss,
aged 20 years, of Wilkesbarre. Penna..
was killed by IN engine at Mocauqua
Station on the afternoon of the Sd.
"A circular saw III a mill at Sisson-
vile, New York, burst on the after
noon of the I'd, killing Joseph Deshaw,
80 years of age, and severely injurlng
two other men.
While workmen were loading a
gravel train at Dallas, Texas, on the
Sd, the bank caved in. One man was
killed and four others were badly in
jured.
While molt II metal was being
dumped into a mould in the rail de-
partment of the Chicago Rolling Mills,
at South Chicago, on the evening of
the I'd, an explosion occurred, scatter
ing the liquid metal around. Nine
were injured, four of them-John
Burns, james Carrier, Patrick Dolan
ond Tamae DarhanS fatally